Date: Sun, 11 Oct 2009 05:24:04 +0100 From: RW <rwmaillists@googlemail.com> To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Subject: Re: / almost out of space just after installation Message-ID: <20091011052404.4227bf84@gumby.homeunix.com> In-Reply-To: <59022.94044.qm@web51005.mail.re2.yahoo.com> References: <59022.94044.qm@web51005.mail.re2.yahoo.com>
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On Sat, 10 Oct 2009 19:43:25 -0700 (PDT) Richard Mahlerwein <mahlerrd@yahoo.com> wrote: > --- On Sat, 10/10/09, RW <rwmaillists@googlemail.com> wrote: >=20 > >But it wouldn't actually be a ram disk, that's just just a misnomer > >that people, who ought to know better, are throwing around. It > >would probably be tmpfs. >=20 > Correction (or at least correction to precision) noted.=A0 I'd still > rather use it as RAM the regular way.=A0 :) You can't, there is no "regular way", it's not 1975 anymore: http://varnish.projects.linpro.no/wiki/ArchitectNotes If you allocate 1.5 x RAM to swap, your system will grind to a halt long before you half-fill it with conventional paging, so you might as well allow tmpfs to use a substantial amount to back /tmp.
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